Brandy said in a statement that dehydration was to blame for the singer’s abrupt and early exit from her Saturday night concert with Monica in Chicago.

The Boy Is Mine Tour, co-headlined by Brandy and Monica , kicked off earlier this week in Cincinnati. However, at the third show of the tour Saturday in Chicago, video emerged of Brandy suddenly leaving the stage mid-song during “Baby”; she never returned to the concert, forcing Monica to handle the remainder of the show herself, and depriving the crowd from the finale duet of their 1998 hit “The Boy Is Mine.”

Amid speculation about why Brandy abruptly left the concert — Monica immediately dismissed any possible bad blood by shouting out Brandy when the show continued — the singer explained in a statement Sunday morning that she was

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